Amnesty International

Wikipedia:

Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is a non-governmental organization with its headquarters in the United Kingdom focused on human rights. The organization says it has more than seven million members and supporters around the world.^[1]

The stated mission of the organization is to campaign for “a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights instruments.”^[3]

Amnesty International was founded in London in 1961, following the publication of the article “The Forgotten Prisoners” in The Observer on 28 May 1961,^[4] by the lawyer Peter Benenson. Amnesty draws attention to human rights abuses and campaigns for compliance with international laws and standards. It works to mobilize public opinion to generate pressure on governments where abuse takes place.^[5] Amnesty considers capital punishment to be “the ultimate, irreversible denial of human rights.”^[6] The organization was awarded the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize for its “defence of human dignity against torture,”^[7] and the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights in 1978.^[8]

In the field of international human rights organizations, Amnesty has the third-longest history, after the International Federation for Human Rights^[9] and the Anti-Slavery Society.

amnesty.org:

Amnesty International is a global movement of more than 10 million people who take injustice personally. We are campaigning for a world where human rights are enjoyed by all.

We are funded by members and people like you. We are independent of any political ideology, economic interest or religion. No government is beyond scrutiny. No situation is beyond hope.

Few would have predicted when we started that torturers would become international outlaws. That most countries would abolish the death penalty. And seemingly untouchable dictators would be made to answer for their crimes.